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    8 1 TODAY todayonline.com Friday October 3,2003* mita (P) 002/11/2002
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    Tharman doctrine
    749 1  -  Derrick A Paulo Changes in education, but how fast? by derrick@newstoday.com.sg FIRST, it was the Acting Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan who prescribed some changes to the institutions under his charge. Now, Acting Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is attempting to do the same. All eyes were on Mr
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    Lock icon A day at the casino... in Singapore
    87 1 A day at the casino in Singapore Joy Frances No, they are not gambling at roulette, just browsing casino-relat-ed products at an international gaming conference in Singapore. The two-day Gaming and Casinos Asia-Pacific 2003 conference was a low-key affair that was not open to the public. Instead, industry experts, tycoons
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    SingTel's $1.5b windfall
    130 1  -  Chan Chao Peh SINGTEL is set to make a profit of about $1.5 billion from its sale of its stake in Belgacom to the Belgium government Sing Tel invested $930 million in 1999 for a 12.15 per cent stake in Belgacom, which is currently valued at around
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Bankers were the bubble-makers
      509 2  -  Chan Chao Peh M 1 chief: Investment advisers partly to be blamed fortelco meltdown by chaopeh@newstoday.com.sg THE advice that the investment banker gives to your company to invest millions on mergers and acquisitions should sometimes be taken with a pinch of salt It could be a
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    • NEW COMMENT/ELISIA YEO
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        Testing time for a vision
        812 3 Will creation of an Asean economic community provide equitable benefits for all? WHEN regional leaders endorse the creation of an Asean Economic Community (AEC) next week, it will be particularly satisfying for Singapore and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. The AEC, part of a Concord
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        The charity watchdog
        453 4  -  Ng Shing Vi Fund-raisers association aims to increase transparency of how donations are disbursed b_y shingyi@newstoday.com.sg LOG on to the Community Chest website and you will find a list of its beneficiaries and the amount of money disbursed for the year 2002/2003. It is a far cry
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        Lock icon Eye in the sky
        71 4 Wee Teck Hian During a visit to Singapore Technologies Engineering facilities yesterday, members from the Government Parliamentary Committee Defence and Foreign Affairs, led by Senior Parliamentary Secretary (National Development and Defence) Associate Professor Koo Tsai Kee, were treated to a display of indigenous defence products, such
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        Medical-benefit schemes clarified
        222 4  -  —Joy Frances TWO portable medical-benefit schemes have been approved of recently and for employers who are uncertain which they should opt for, help is at hand. Yesterday, the General Insurance Association of Singapore and Life Insurance Association (LIA) released a comparison of the schemes. They favoured the
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        Lock icon Cocaine worth $4m in unclaimed bag
        160 6 -AFP JAKARTA Indonesian Customs officers have found cocaine worth about U552.39 million ($4.1 million) in an unclaimed bag at Jakarta international airport, according to an airport official and press reports. Customs officials opened an unclaimed bag on Monday after an X-ray inspection showed a
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        A master of his art
        563 6  -  Spencer Robinson Commentator Brian Langley, 57, dies of a heart attack I by news@newstoday.com.sg BRIAN Langley (picture), the voice of sport in Asia, died yesterday following a heart attack. For almost 20 years, Langley was at the cutting edge of sports broadcasting in the region.
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      256 6 B^^B 1v flf jH^ v jfe JB Hf^P^ wK —*B B W i v B I w Jb^i bl9 "v i v. v 1 —r Ik H ul *m^ SEMINAR TOPICS The Parent Coach: Parenting Types Moving Towards Independence: Change/Individualism What Teenagers Need: Key Life Messages Keeping Teenagers On Board
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Blacklisted store nominated for Tourism Award? STB clarifies
      318 8 THE Singapore Tourism Board has refuted claims that one of its blacklisted retailers was nominated for a Tourism award. Responding to a report by Channel News Asia on Wednesday night, the STB issued a statement clarifying that it was one of the
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      Indian schools set to merge
      453 8  -  Pamela Pang ICS, BVB will create 1,500 seats by pamela@newstoday.com.sg SET up with just 48 students a year ago, Singapore's Indian Central School (ICS) will be ready to cater to 1,500 Indian expatriate children by the end of the year, when it merges with India's
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    • Singapore Snippets
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        Workers wanted urgently for the textile and garment sector
        162 8 Contrary to the belief that Singapore's textile and garment industry is a sunset industry, the Manpower Ministry's Workforce Development Agency (WDA) said yesterday that the industry needs 2,000 workers immediately. To bridge the gap between perception and reality, the WDA is
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        M'sia-S'pore sea dispute's legal arguments online
        91 8 The case before the 21-member International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to consider Malaysia's application to get Singapore to stop reclamation works in Tuas and Pulau Tekong ended last Saturday. A verdict is expected next Wednesday. The full transcript of the legal
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      Better substance than style
      162 10  -  Daniel Koh Kah Soon I REFER to "Different ways of Dealing with HARDtalk" (Today, Oct 1). I am not sure that it is accurate to say that Prime Minister Tony Blair has "ducked the challenge" of Tim Sebastian of HARDtalk fame. The British Premier, like his
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      Insights into the
      764 10  -  Leong Yew Meng Psychiatric illnesses span a large spectrum, so institution tailors the care according to type and severity of each patient I REFER to the article, "Unwell and Unwanted" (Today, Sept 25). The report was misleading on a number of counts and we would like to
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      Managers equally vital
      178 11  -  Robert Teh Kok Hua I THINK that your article "What's needed are leaders" (Today, Oct 2) by Mr Koh Buck Song, highlighting the importance of leadership over middle-management processes, may require some clarifications. There is no doubt that leadership is critical to success as highlighted by Mr
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      STI hits 15-month high
      276 13 as regional bourses are boosted by positive sentiment A SURGE of buying swept through Asian stock markets yesterday, pushing the Singapore and Hong Kong bourses to year-highs. The benchmark ST Index surged 13.29 points, or 0.8 per cent, to end at a 15-month high of 1,644.01,
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        ST Index: 1,644.01 +13.29
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        Lock icon Singapore
        182 13 SGX, Bloomberg SINGAPORE shares ended higher yesterday, lifted by Wall Street's overnight gains and upbeat regional markets, traders said. The ST Index closed up 13.29 points, or 0.8 per cent, at 1,644.01, but was off a high of 1,656.25. On the broader market, gainers outnumbered losers 182 to 142
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        SGX most active
        57 13 By volume Goldtron Goodpack TCIL 3k HKS Cosco Inv Chartered Citiraya SembKim Horizon Autron UniFibei Close 0.030 0.780 1.560 0.535 1.500 0.585 0.205 0.175 0.390 0.145 Change +0.005 +0.035 +0.130 +0.020 +0.010 +0.010 +0.025 -0.005 +20.0 +4.7 +9.1 +1.4 +1.7 +5.1 +6.8 -3.3 '000 174,180 49,849 43,518
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        SGX top rises
        81 13 By$ DBS Close Change 13.300 +0.300 SPH 100 18.500 +0.300 Sluing Asia 2kHKS STI ETF 100 7.000 +0.250 16.780 +0.240 SIA 10.800 +0.200 SPH 18.400 +0.200 KepCorp Noble 5.400 +0.150 2.510 +0.140 TCIL3kHKS 1.560 +0.130 Bukit Sem 13.100 +0.100 By percentage CSC Close Change 0.045 +28.6 HupSengH
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        SGX top falls
        76 13 By$ IMH 400USS Close 7.000 Change -0.300 Fhai Prime200USS 8.300 -0.150 3PBal 3.640 -0.100 3realEasl 10.300 -0.100 ieaview 9.300 -0.100 /enture 19.300 -0.100 ISH 500USS 3.400 -0.060 Mlgreen 1.010 -0.030 WarcoPolo 1.850 -0.030 Kingsmen 0.400 -0.025 By percentage CSCW*****7 Close 0.010 Change -33.3 Benefun 20k 0.015 -25.0
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        World markets
        53 13 Index Nikkei 225 Hang Seng Ordinaries Faiwan Wtd Korea Comp Value 10,593.53 11,546.12 3,203.40 5,699.86 715.24 Change Pts +232.29 +316.25 +38.70 +118.20 +10.95 +2.24 +2.82 +1.22 +2.12 +1.55 KLCI 737.43 -0.21 -0.03 SET Index 567.02 -2.73 -0.48 lakarta Comp Phils Comp .henzhen B Wumbai Sensex 619.59 1297.89 +13.55
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        Commodities
        21 13 Gold uss/oz 386.300 Silver uss/oz 5.130 Platinum uss/oz 706.000 Rubber centsAg 197.00 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1517.5 Brent crude uss/barrel 28.57
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 13 USS 0.5789 UK£ 0.3469 Yen 64.060 HK$ 4.478 RM 2.1998 Euro 0.494 Rupiah 4853.4 Baht 23.057 Peso 31.740 A$ 0.8434 Indian Rs 26.368 Won 666.73 C$ 0.779 Yuan 4.792 NZ$ 0.9651 NTS 19.547
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      Lock icon Hang Seng breaks 11,500 barrier
      45 13 Reuters photo A panel displaying the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong yesterday. The territory's leading shares index broke through the 1 1,500-point barrier and hit a 16-month high on economic recovery hopes and with property plays leading the way.
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      Lock icon CapitaLand highest bidder for Jellicoe site
      139 13 Bloomberg PROPERTY giant Capita Land has put in the highest bid of $161.5 million for a site at Jellicoe Road, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said in a statement yesterday. Capita Land's bid was higher than those of Fraser Neave, which turned in a
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      3G contract for Nokia
      97 13  -  Chan Chao Peh STARHUB has awarded its 3G (third-generation) high-speed mobile network contract to Nokia. The contract is worth $200 million over five years. Three months ago, Ericsson beat Nokia and a consortium led by Siemens and NEC to win SingTel's $220 million 3G contract Mobile
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      HDB rental slump
      407 14  -  Lee Yew Meng New ruling leads to excess supply of flats for rental by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg HDB flat rentals, which have dropped by 15 per cent or more in the past year, are expected to fall further with another 250,000 flats allowed to be rented out since Wednesday.
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      Lock icon Corporate briefs
      151 14 Dow Jones NM Holdings said its 58.5 per cent shareholder, Ngai Mcc Packaging Industries, has offered to take the company private at 1 3 cents a share. Low trading volume, increasing corporate compliance costs, economic uncertainties and competition facing the laminated plastic packaging materials industry, had prompted the
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      Lock icon Travel in comfort
      60 14 AFP photo Singapore Airlines stewardesses demonstrating its new "Space Bed" feature for business class seats at the PATA Travel Mart 2003 show yesterday. Booking service Abacus International announced that travel bookings in Asia are recovering sharply from the Sars outbreak with more than 3.5 million bookings made
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      Lock icon Renesas' aim: Sales to exceed $13b in first year
      184 14 Agencies JAPAN'S Renesas Technology Corp a joint venture set up between Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric Corp's semiconductor businesses said it expects total sales to exceed US$7.5 billion ($l3 billion) for the financial year ending next March. Mr Koichi Nagasawa, chief executive
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      Lock icon SembLog dismisses fears about partnership with KNI
      169 14 Dow Jones SEMBCORP Logistics (SembLog) yesterday said fears about the future of its pact with Swiss associate Kuehne Nagel International AG (KNI) were "unfounded". "There is no basis for the assumption that either KNI or SembLog are intending to exit the partnership at
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      Lock icon Tokyo makes bid to weaken yen
      148 16 Dow Jones TOKYO Japan's monetary authorities sold yen in the currency market yesterday for the third straight day, lifting the US dollar nearly a yen after the greenback fell as low as 110.54 yen ($1.71). But the Bank of Japan (BoJ)-inspired rally to a
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      Lock icon India-Asean FTA, step 1
      262 16 Reuters Pact framework to be inked next week INDIA will sign a framework agreement with the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) at its summit next week, leading to a full free trading area within a decade, the Financial Times reported in its Asian edition yesterday.
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      Lock icon Firm returns to finish Laos dam
      206 16 -AFP HANOI France's state-owned Electricite de France has recommitted itself to a controversial hydro-electric power plant in Laos more than two months after withdrawing from the US$l.3 billion ($2.2 billion) project, sources said yesterday. Nam Theun 2 Power Co (NTPC), in which EDFI, the
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    • COMMENTARY
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        Lock icon US economy could unravel
        654 22  -  William Pesek Jr if Asia unpegs currencies from US dollar by news@newstoday.com.sg MR AVINASH Persaud didn't set out to make a room full of currency traders squirm in their seats. Yet, the director of GAM-Persaud Global Investment Fund did just that to the usually steel-stom-ached risk-takers,
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        Lock icon US ups pressure to end yuan-$ peg
        126 22 AFP WASHINGTON The Bush administration has turned up the heat on China to abandon the yuan-dollar peg, which has been blamed for shutting out US exports and destroying American jobs. "With its rapid growth and substantial foreign exchange reserves, China is now in
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  • SAVVY INVESTOR
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      Don't be intimidated when buying policies
      417 26  -  Adrian Tan by news@newstoday.com.sg MANY Singaporeans buy insurance policies without understanding them fully. And some policyholders get upset when the annual bonuses paid to them are less than what they had expected. The problem arises when insurance agents use a document known as the
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      UNIT TRUSTS & FUNDS
      2070 26 UNIT TRUSTS FUNDS The data contained herein has been obtained from company reports, financial reporting services, periodicals and other resources believed to be reliable. Although carefully verified, data on compilations is not guaranteed by Lipper A Reuters Company and may be incomplete. No offer or solicitations to buy or sell
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        Lock icon Asiatravel.com — HOLD
        95 26 Asiatravel.com HOLD Netßesearch Asia Asiatravel.com saw a strong rebound in travel bookings and is on track to achieve positive earnings for the second-half which ended on Tuesday. The group expects its online segment to maintain rapid growth. The company entered into a placement agreement last Friday with BNP Paribas Peregrine
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        Lock icon Portek – OUTPERFORM
        116 26 Portek OUTPERFORM OCBC Investment Research Portek's results for this financial year were in line with expectations. Net profit fell 34 per cent to $4.2 million as a result of a higher proportion of lower margin revenue and start-up losses from Banten Terminal. We predict a net profit growth of 35
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      160 28 AFP SEOUL Prosecutors questioned the chairman of South Korea's third-largest conglomerate, the SK Group, yesterday on charges that he had fabricated SK Shipping Co's financial documents to create a 200 billion won ($3OO million) slush fund for payoffs to politicians, including members
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      237 28 Bloomberg JP MORGAN Chase Co, the second-biggest United States bank by assets, agreed to pay US$25 million ($43 million) to settle regulatory charges that it illegally allotted shares in initial public offerings in exchange for commitments by customers to buy more once they started trading.
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      173 28 EU warns US: Scrap tax breaks, or else Reuters BRUSSELS The European Commission said yesterday it would impose up to US$4 billion ($6.9 billion) in trade sanctions on the US if Washington does not scrap its system of tax breaks for exports. "We would impose sanctions if and when the
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      388 30 Agencies Israel builds wall to keep Palestinians out JERUSALEM Despite growing international criticism, Israel approved the expansion of a vast barrier it is building in the West Bank, aimed at keeping out Palestinian suicide bombers. The Cabinet decided to press on with the construction of a
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      259 30 WASHINGTON Six women who met actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger on movie sets and other places over the last three decades said he groped them, the Los Angeles Times said yesterday. In interviews with the Times, three of the women described their surprise and discomfort when he grabbed
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        124 30 AFP Reclusive South African writer JM Coetzee won the 2003 Nobel Literature Prize yesterday for his writings borne out of his experiences of the former apartheid system in his country. Mr Coetzee, "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider", will take
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        46 30 AFP Islamic militant Ali Ghufron, alias Mukhlas, was yesterday sentenced to death by firing squad for masterminding the Bali bombings. Mukhlas, 43, the third Bali bomber to receive a death sentence for the attacks last October, said he would appeal.
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        86 30 Agencies Trying to win over sceptics, the US on Wednesday unveiled a draft of a resolution that emphasises a transfer of power to Iraqis but leaves the US-led coalition in firm control. The draft gives the United Nations a list
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        71 30 AFP photo A wedding limousine waiting for a bride outside a Chinese home in Beijing yesterday. China celebrated National Day with an unprecedented number of marriages and record-breaking travel, with more than 2,000 couples tying the knot in the Chinese capital on the first
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      426 32  -  Jaime Koh The Saudis are not rich as before but the country is stable says former envoy to UAE by jaime@newstoday.com.sg DESPITE his many years of involvement in the Middle East, or perhaps it is because of them, Sir Graham Burton's rather optimistic assessment
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        48 34 AFP The conservative Anglican Archbishop of Sydney yesterday called for the expulsion of liberal North Americans who allowed homosexual clerics and samesex marriages. Archbishop Peter Jensen said that expelling them was the bravest option as it would send a powerful moral and spiritual message.
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        44 34 AFP The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into FBI agents suspected of involvement in unauthorised business ventures in China and the Middle East while working on espionage and terrorism cases linked to these regions, an FBI official said.
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      302 34 Hubby of alleged CIA agent remains nonchalant WASHINGTON He may be the man at the centre of the CIA leak controversy but he is clearly unfazed by it "We were just discussing today who would play her in a movie," former US ambassador John Wilson told the
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      128 36 Reuters NEW YORK Like the phoenix from the ashes, the once-wildly popular Napster song-swapping service is slated to be relaunched before the end of the year, its new corporate parent Roxio Inc said. Once the scourge of the music industry, Napster had
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      254 36 Once upon a time AFP Snow White's mother was the villain POTSDAM (Germany) The villain of the well-loved fairy tale, Snow White, isn't the titular character's vain stepmother after all, but her biological mother. The Brothers Grimm, practising a benign self-censorship, sanitised the tale to placate the sensitivities of early
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      259 36 Reuters BUCHAREST The self-proclaimed Romanian king of the gypsies, Mr Florin Cioaba, on Wednesday defied a state investigation into whether he forced his 12-year-old daughter to marry against her will and paraded her on TV saying the wedding was her choice. Hundreds of guests and
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      992 38  -  mr brown They will soothe angry HDB flat buyers, encourage e-filing and right wrong pyschic forecasts by news@newstoday.com.sg ANOTHER Sengkang development, Rivervale Crescent, has hit a delay because of the woes of the construction company responsible for building it This has the makings of
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      283 42  -  -EUsaCtda YOU may not realise this but you spend an average of 26 minutes on the bus per trip, during which, 20 minutes are spent viewing programmes on TVMobile. This was one of the findings unveiled at TVMobile's trade show yesterday. Conducted by CL Research Solutions
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      809 42  -  Serene Foo This feisty writer does not need a man to make her complete SHE weaves riveting, heart-wrenching tales of love, celebrating its triumphs and losses over tradition and taboo. And almost always, there is a heroine at the centre of those tales, one who reflects
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      476 44  -  Tor Ching Li Watch out, these aunties wield enormous supermarket powers by chingli@newsto day, com. sg IN THE time before land reclamation, working in a restaurant kitchen be it as a chef or helper was a sure way of getting your chipped porcelain
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      573 46  -  Benson Ong When turbulence hits, find another direction to spread your wings by news@newstoday.com.sg OVER the past decade, Dr Diana Young has carved a name for herself in the field of aerospace engineering. But now, she's spreading her wings by expanding into sectors like hotels,
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      562 48  -  Elisa Chia Tintin and a great memory was all it took for Perry Lam to become Spores Brainiest Kid by elisa@newstoday.com.sg WHAT makes Singapore's Brainiest Kid Perry Lam so brainy? A great memory even though he couldn't remember the name of the world's highest mountain shrewd
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        404 51  -  Serene Foo This Infernal Affairs 'prequel' will have you hooked Infernal Affairs II FILM REVIEW by serene@newstoday.com.sg PREQUELS or sequels for that matter, rarely garner as much adulation as an original does. Thankfully, the much-antici-pated Infernal Affairs prequel doesn't disappoint with its faithfulness to last year's smash hit.
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        220 51  -  Jeanine Tan by j eanine@newstoday. com.sg THE ageing Robert Duvall and Michael Came in Secondhand Lions are the perfect poster boys for the geriatric crowd. As Uncle Hub and Uncle Garth, they don't behave like the average old man. For old people, Hub and Garth lead
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        323 54  -  Yong Shu Chiang Dirty film about the plight of immigrants by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg ONE face stands out in Stephen Frears' stirring and utterly absorbing film about the plight of immigrants lured by the bright lights of the big city. It's the face of Audrey Tautou (Amelie), who plays Turkish-Muslim
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